Freddie Roach: record, next fight and profile →
Trainer Freddie Roach is not excited by the welterweight match between WBO champion Timothy Bradley (30-0, 12KOs) and former four division world champion Juan Manuel Marquez (55-6-1, 40KOs). Both fighters defeated Roach's prized pupil, Manny Pacquiao, in 2012. Bradley won a controversial split decision last June and Marquez knocked Pacquiao out cold in the sixth round in December.
Trainer Freddie Roach expects Manny Pacquiao (54-5-2, 38KOs) to get revenge for him on November 23rd in Macau, China. Pacquiao will face Brandon Rios (31-1-1, 23KOs). Before Pacquiao's match with Antonio Margarito at Cowboys Stadium in 2010, a video surfaced on the internet where Margarito and Rios were making fun of Roach's ongoing physical struggles with Parkinson’s disease. Roach says Pacquiao will punish and knock Rios out.
Gabriel Peñagarícano, the legal adviser to former three division world champion Miguel Cotto (37-3, 30KOs) has confrimed that there have been preliminary discussions to establish a working relationship with trainer Freddie Roach, who trains Manny Pacquiao and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Cotto had trained for his last few fights with Cuban coach Pedro Diaz. Roach was in Pacquiao's corner when he stopped Cotto in the twelfth round in 2009.
So far, so good for Frankie Gomez under Freddie Roach. The ultra-talented welterweight prospect seems to have put his legal troubles behind him and is flourishing in the ring since hooking up with the Hall of Fame trainer at the Wild Card Boxing Club last last year. Gomez (15-0, 11 KOs) has had distractions in the past, but Roach hopes he can stay on the straight-and-narrow. "There’s a lot of people who want to hang around you out there and want to be your friend, but you have to stay with the people that were there when you started and be careful about the guys coming on," said Roach. "I hope he can stay away from that. When I started with (Manny) Pacquiao he had no entourage, now he has a huge entourage. I never thought that would happen, but that’s how the boxing game goes, though."
Trainer Freddie Roach says eight division world champion Manny Pacquiao is focused on facing Juan Manuel Marquez for a fifth time in the fall. Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum has stated that four names are being considered for Pacquiao's return, which is being targeted for an October date in Macau, China. Three of those names are WBO welterweight champion Timothy Bradley, WBO interim-140 pound champion Mike Alvarado, and Marquez. The fourth name is unknown as Arum ruled out Brandon Rios in another interview.
Popular Chinese Olympian Zou Shiming said he was eyeing up a world title after he won his debut professional fight on Saturday, defeating little-known Mexican Eleazar Valenzuela on a unanimous points decision in Macau. The two-time Olympic gold medallist and three-time amateur world champion emerged from a tight contest over four rounds, all three judges giving him victory 40-36. Zou reportedly pocketed $US 300,000 ($A289,000) for his night's work. No Chinese boxer has been as successful as Zou, 31, in the amateur ranks and his eagerly anticipated professional debut, in a sport once banned in China under Mao Zedong, was expected to draw hundreds of millions of television viewers in China.
After winning two Olympic Games gold medals and three world titles as an amateur Zou Shiming turns professional on Saturday night. Victory in his four-round debut fight against Eleazar Valenzuela from Mexico should be a formality but anything but a resounding victory, preferably by knockout, would be a shock result. The Chinese flyweight embarks on what he and his US promoters hope will be a fast track to a world title. His first professional bout is part of the "Fists of Gold" tournament in the 15 000-seat Cotai Arena in Macau. Zou is already 31 years old and only 1.65 metres tall but he intends to be a world champion soon.
As Sands China prepares to bring an exciting night of boxing, ZOU SHIMING "Fists of Gold,” to the CotaiArena™ on April 6, two-time Olympic Gold Medallist and three-time World Amateur Champion Zou Shiming and his Top Rank® trainer Freddie Roach spent the Sunday afternoon to interact with students from various Macau youth boxing training centres at the gym specially set up for "Fists of Gold” boxers at the Venetian Theatre.
After scouting for months for a new trainer, former WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. plans to retain the services of Freddie Roach. Chavez is scheduled to return on June 22nd in either Texas of Mexico City. "No, I will not change coaches. I will continue with Freddie Roach. I will train the last few months with him, because I will be heading to Otomni to be with my coach Vladimir Valdenegro, who always helps me prepare," Chavez told reporters during a training session.
Double Olympic gold medallist Zou Shiming has some bad amateur habits, says Freddie Roach. Zou admits he has a lot to learn ahead of his professional debut next month but the Chinese flyweight enjoyed the best possible education from hall of fame trainer Roach on Wednesday. After an amateur career in which he also claimed three world championships, Zou will have his first professional fight on April 6 when he faces Mexican Eleazar Valenzuela in a four-round bout in Macau.